A large pair of Biscuit-glazed famille verte Buddhist Lions, Kangxi period. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2010
The seated lions modeled with open jaws, revealing their fangs and red tongues, their bodies richly decorated with molded manes and breasts and legs, while their heads are applied with colorful curly hair and eyebrows and their ears are veined as leaves while their spines are decorated with yellow spotted bamboo above a notch to hold a removable tail, gilt shou medallions between their bulging eyes, fitted wood... [Lire la suite]

A large pair of famille verte dishes, Kangxi period. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2010
Each with a central lotus-form panel of antiques and auspicious objects surrounded by six panels in the shape of leaves and fruit enclosing ducks, pheasants, cranes, carp, grasshoppers, a ship and a qilin, the panels flanked by dragons and on a trellis-ground, the reverse with an artemesia leaf and double circle in underglaze blue; 15¼ in. (38.7 cm.) diameter (2) - Estimate $20,000 - $30,000
A pair of famille verte dishes,... [Lire la suite]